“Over the din of boxing gloves pounding against leather bags, I struggle to hear this Brazilian explain yet another way to choke someone unconscious.” Joseph Laycock paints his audience a picture of a scene taking place. This is a great visual of what the writer experiences. “Our school is so old that its walls are actually beginning to shift apart at the foundations.” This is another visual sentence where the author shows the audience rather than telling the audience how the school is old and worn. “When I work the heavy bag until I feel faint, or have a 300-pound stranger pin my face to the mat with his knee, I am cultivating the strength of will necessary to make a difference.” Joseph Laycock really portrays to us, the audience, the strength that he must have as a teacher to teach in a school with “at-risk” students. These three quotes in Joseph’s piece really stood out for me. It is so incredible to see that he took martial arts to channel his energy of life that he experiences everyday. I think that everyone who experience hardships or struggles in life should engage in something productive or meaningful to them to help them get through these struggles that life may bring to them.
“Admittance to a Better Life”
“It’s odd to educate oneself away from one’s past.” I feel this quote from the article speaks volumes about the meaning of education. Here we are in a world where school is found to be very important to individuals, yet there are students who never really gave school a second thought because of the way they grew up, maybe because they were not pushed to succeed in school, or maybe their family had other plans for them. But when a student can look past their own past and move on from the reality of family life, hard times, or life threatening issues, and become something of themselves, that is where the true miracle begins. This article really shows to the readers that no matter where you are born, what you were brought up to believe, you can grow as an individual and really learn from education, it can change human beings into people they never thought that they could become.
“This I Believe”
The beginning paragraph really engaged me into this reading. These are often questions we all think about ourselves. What truly makes people educated? Is it their smarts that they learn from books, or is it their street smarts that they must use to get through life everyday. The Nona that the author talks about gives us realistic thoughts about what education is really about. It is not just want you lean in school, though this information is very valuable, but what you take out of daily life, how you overcome struggles in life, how you face problems and overcome them without giving up. The Nona that the author talks has been dealt a hand on obstacles in life but it was not enough to get her down, instead it made her a strong person, and willing to push even harder in life to become what she could. Although she struggled in some areas such as reading and writing, only being able to sign her name, this was not enough for her to give up. She was so intelligent, so witty, she knew five language and owned her own business for the past 40 years. She could even to multiply large numbers in her head. She was an inspiration to all that knew her.
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“Life is a spiritual struggle”
“Over the din of boxing gloves pounding against leather bags, I struggle to hear this Brazilian explain yet another way to choke someone unconscious.” Joseph Laycock paints his audience a picture of a scene taking place. This is a great visual of what the writer experiences. “Our school is so old that its walls are actually beginning to shift apart at the foundations.” This is another visual sentence where the author shows the audience rather than telling the audience how the school is old and worn. “When I work the heavy bag until I feel faint, or have a 300-pound stranger pin my face to the mat with his knee, I am cultivating the strength of will necessary to make a difference.” Joseph Laycock really portrays to us, the audience, the strength that he must have as a teacher to teach in a school with “at-risk” students. These three quotes in Joseph’s piece really stood out for me. It is so incredible to see that he took martial arts to channel his energy of life that he experiences everyday. I think that everyone who experience hardships or struggles in life should engage in something productive or meaningful to them to help them get through these struggles that life may bring to them.
“Admittance to a Better Life”
“It’s odd to educate oneself away from one’s past.” I feel this quote from the article speaks volumes about the meaning of education. Here we are in a world where school is found to be very important to individuals, yet there are students who never really gave school a second thought because of the way they grew up, maybe because they were not pushed to succeed in school, or maybe their family had other plans for them. But when a student can look past their own past and move on from the reality of family life, hard times, or life threatening issues, and become something of themselves, that is where the true miracle begins. This article really shows to the readers that no matter where you are born, what you were brought up to believe, you can grow as an individual and really learn from education, it can change human beings into people they never thought that they could become.
“This I Believe”
The beginning paragraph really engaged me into this reading. These are often questions we all think about ourselves. What truly makes people educated? Is it their smarts that they learn from books, or is it their street smarts that they must use to get through life everyday. The Nona that the author talks about gives us realistic thoughts about what education is really about. It is not just want you lean in school, though this information is very valuable, but what you take out of daily life, how you overcome struggles in life, how you face problems and overcome them without giving up. The Nona that the author talks has been dealt a hand on obstacles in life but it was not enough to get her down, instead it made her a strong person, and willing to push even harder in life to become what she could. Although she struggled in some areas such as reading and writing, only being able to sign her name, this was not enough for her to give up. She was so intelligent, so witty, she knew five language and owned her own business for the past 40 years. She could even to multiply large numbers in her head. She was an inspiration to all that knew her.